On 02.07.2020 09:34, Paul Durrant wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com>
>> Sent: 01 July 2020 11:23
>> To: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
>> Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com>; George Dunlap
>> <george.dun...@eu.citrix.com>; Ian
>> Jackson <ian.jack...@citrix.com>; Julien Grall <jul...@xen.org>; Wei Liu
>> <w...@xen.org>; Stefano
>> Stabellini <sstabell...@kernel.org>; Roger Pau Monné <roger....@citrix.com>;
>> Paul Durrant
>> <p...@xen.org>
>> Subject: [PATCH v2 0/7] x86: compat header generation and checking
>> adjustments
>>
>> As was pointed out by 0e2e54966af5 ("mm: fix public declaration of
>> struct xen_mem_acquire_resource"), we're not currently handling structs
>> correctly that have uint64_aligned_t fields. Patch 2 demonstrates that
>> there was also an issue with XEN_GUEST_HANDLE_64().
>>
>> Only the 1st patch was previously sent, but the approach chosen has
>> been changed altogether. All later patches are new. For 4.14 I think
>> at least patch 1 should be considered.
>
> It's now quite a large patch.
Most parts being entirely mechanical, though. But still ...
> Since xen_mem_acquire_resouce() has been fixed, patch #1 (as you say
> in the comment there) is addressing a latent issue and so I’d prefer
> not to take what is now quite a large patch into 4.14.
... fair enough.
Jan
